OT: "All up: No reserves"

[Tim Watts]

So 1GW of supply gone bye bye.

Oh dear...

[Tim Watts]

-1700MW now - yes, I just saw that.

How likely is that to be negotiated away before then (voluntary shedding and extra power from somewhere expensive)?

[Tim Watts]

Why are we exporting to Holland?

[Huge]

Tee-hee.

[Huge]

Have you got next week's lottery numbers as well, please?

[Tim Watts]

This is interesting:

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Huge escribió:

Sure, I'll post them Saturday morning.

:)

[Hankat]

They were actually invented by someone who needed to power communications satellites.

[Jack Johnson]

More lies with Hinkley alone.

[The Natural Philosopher]

yes, but you'll have to sort them out from all the other numbers.

[The Natural Philosopher]

It all started with Blair actually. Thats when we should have been sorting out nuclear, but instead we got Ed Miliband and the Climate Change Act written largely by Greenepace.

[Tim Watts]

System buy price went to £450/MWh last night in trading sector 39 (20:30 if I've worked that out right??)

[harry]

There is to be a new Thames barrier further East which is to incorporate tidal electricity generation.

The existing barrier is apparently now not high enough due to global warming/sea level rises. The ones that aren't happening Leo says.

[Tim Streater]

More likely due to the fact that SE England is sinking.

[Dave Liquorice]

Don't they have to publish notices if they want to use DSBR or SBR?

Not so sure they have to when asking the DNO's to drop the supply voltage which would have the same "peak triming" affect on total demand. Can't say the voltage plot here shows any reduction out of the normal but how big a reduction are we talking about and for how long?

Reduction: Say they want to trim 1 GW from 50 GW demand that's 2% or

5V. Our supply varies by that much over a normal day...

[Harry Bloomfield]

The Natural Philosopher submitted this idea :

Ferrybridge seems to have been brought out of retirement, at least it seemed to be producing steam from one of its cooling towers this am.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Wood burner:

"On 31 October 2011 SSE was granted Section 36 planning permission to construct a 68 MW Multifuel plant at its Ferrybridge C Power Station site.[37] The 68 MW plant was designed to burn mixed fuel including biomass, fuel from waste and waste wood. The plant became operational during 2015.[38][2]

In late 2013 consultations began for a second multifuel plant "Ferrybridge Multifuel 2" (FM2). The plant was initially specified to be similar in scale to the first plant, and to have a capacity of up to 90 MW.[39][40] Ferrybridge Carbon Capture Plant

On 30 November 2011, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne, officially opened a carbon capture pilot plant at Ferrybridge Power Station. The carbon capture plant was constructed in partnership with Doosan Power Systems, Vattenfall and the Technology Strategy Board.[41][42] The plant had a capacity of 100 tonnes of CO2 per day, equivalent to 0.005 GW of power.[43] The capture method used amine chemistry[44][45] (see Amine gas treating). The CO2 was not stored, because the pilot plant was designed only to test the carbon capture element of the carbon capture and storage process. At the time of construction it was the largest carbon capture plant in the UK.[46]"

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Harry Bloomfield escribió:

It's one of the stations NatGrid has contracted with to provide emergency reserve this winter. Fiddler's Ferry is another.

[Tim Watts]

Hmm - gone from about -1700MW of surplus to +151MW on the 5th Dec:

Wonder how they magicked that up? (No seriously - how do they just find

1.7GW that they didn't have last week?)

Still a tad thin though...

[Dave Plowman (News)]

One pond on the local common is frozen over to the point where it will take a dog's weight - at least in the shallow bits. That didn't happen at all last winter. So rather difficult to define what a proper winter is. Except that this cold snap in the SE is earlier than usual.